Posted in Classic and Remakes on Oct 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Classical strategy-puzzle game Commandos is now available on the Good Old Games store, along with its expansion Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, both for only 6$.
Commandos is the late nineties progenitor of a sub-genre that focuses on leading a small number of team members, each with his, her or its unique abilities, to penetrate [...]
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Posted in Classic and Remakes, Deals on Oct 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Steam are having a weekend deal on Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, the unique side scrolling action adventure from the creative minds at Oddworld Inhabitants. The classic game, describing the exploits of weakling Abe as he outsmarts rather than outguns his enemies in order to save his people from ending up as hamburgers, is 3.4$ instead of the regular 10$.
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Posted in Classic and Remakes, Deals on Oct 1st, 2009 No Comments »
As the new Red Faction: Guerilla is doing the rounds on gaming PCs everywhere, GamersGate are offering the previous two episodes in the First-Person Shooter series for the low price of 10$ – for both games together. Deal is valid for this weekend only, then the price goes back to its normal 20$ level.
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Posted in Classic and Remakes, Deals on Sep 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Good Old Games are offering a deal on their Strategy First games catalog: if you buy all 11 titles composing it, the bundle will cost you ~50$ instead of the normal ~100$. If you’re already a GOG member (bought games there previously) and purchased one or more of these titles, than you can get just the [...]
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Posted in Classic and Remakes, Deals on Sep 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
To celebrate their first year anniversary, Good Old Games are having a sale on Interplay games, 2 games for a mere $6 – and you can take any number of game pairs. The deal is on up to September 8th, and there are many great classics there. The best ones in my opinion are:
Fallout 1+2: [...]
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Posted in Classic and Remakes on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Classic game store GOG is having an Unreal Week, offering 15% off on all four Unreal games in stock. You can now get each of the following for $8.50:
- Unreal Gold: The original Unreal game that showcased the beauty of the Unreal engine’s graphics back in 1998. Find your way off the exotic, but dangerous, [...]
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Posted in Classic and Remakes on Aug 4th, 2009 No Comments »
It’s been a long time since the Actua Sports titles were contenders against the likes of FIFA ‘98 and other leading sports brands of the late nineties. Now they resurface as super cheap titles on Gamer’s Gate.
The Actua Sports games are nowadays fallen far far behind state of the art, but they mostly won [...]
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Posted in Deals on Aug 4th, 2009 No Comments »
A great deal on Direct2Drive: Fallout 3, the greatest RPG of 2008 and some other years besides, is selling this week for half-price. That is $25 for you American folks, 15.5GBPP for you British boys and gals, 22.5 Euros for European Union messieurs and se oras etc, and a mere 45 Australian Dollars for you [...]
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Posted in Classic and Remakes on Aug 3rd, 2009 2 Comments »
A new game, all free, is a remake plus of Skyroads, a very popular classic from 1993. Most all who were dos gamers know it: a fast obstacle run on hole-poked highways in the sky, it was one of the most playable arcade games of the pre-Pentium era.
Tasty Static is much of the same, [...]
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Posted in Features on Aug 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Searching for previous parts of this feature? 111 Great Free Games, Part 6/10 111 Great Free Games, Part 5/10 111 Great Free Games, Part 4/10 111 Great Free Games, Part 3/10 111 Great Free Games, Part 2/10 111 Great Free Games, Part 1/10
You’ve already played all 66 previously listed games? How diligent of you. Then [...]
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